Martin Bergström
Biographic Data
| ID | 4422170 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Martin Bergström |
| GIVEN NAMES | Martin |
| FAMILY NAME | Bergström |
| SIGNATURE | BERGSTRÖM M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Lund University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7469-7961 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 11 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Interventions to strengthen foster family care: A systematic review of effects, evidence gaps, and future directions
My Choice–My Way! Results From a Swedish Quasi-Experimental Pilot Study
Purpose Experience of out-of-home care (OHC) is associated with long-term adverse outcomes, partly due to insufficient preparation for independent living. This study examined the preliminary effectiveness of My Choice–My Way! (MCMW), a transition support service. Methods A 2 × 2 mixed design with natural allocation compared MCMW ( n = 55) to service as usual (SAU; n = 77). Youth ( n = 132), aged 15 + and currently in or recently leaving OHC, were…
The Importance of Social Support for Well‐Being Among Late Adolescents With Experience of Out‐of‐Home Care in Sweden
Social support is important for human well‐being. Adolescents with experience of out‐of‐home care (OHC) have an increased risk of low well‐being and lack of strong social support networks. Well‐being in the general population is known to fluctuate during the life‐course, particularly during adolescence. The purpose of this study was to increase our understanding of how well‐being differs at different time‐points in youth with experience of OHC an…
Advancing Our Understanding of Complex Intervention Development in Social Work: Co-Producing Support for Youth Transitioning from Out-of-Home Care
Research on intervention development has expanded over the past decade. However, much of the extant literature on complex intervention development is confined to healthcare and public health broadly or intervention science specifically with scant attention to the process within other fields known for their extensive provision of social interventions such as social work or community-based services. This paper aims to advance understanding of the c…
Defending the Principle of the Best Interest of the Child as the Moral Standard for Restricting Social Contact Between Parents and Children in out-of-home Care
Whether or not to allow socialisation between parents and children in out-of-home care presents a difficult ethical challenge for those social work professionals who need to make an assessment about what to do. In this as well as in other contexts, it is widely assumed that the principle of the best interest of the child (BIC) is both the legal and moral standard for decision-making for children. Yet, from a moral philosophical perspective it is …
Two Studies Assessing Early Intervention Fit of Independent Living Services in Sweden
Purpose: Young people transitioning from out-of-home care are a vulnerable group. This article reports two studies aiming to increase understanding of how to develop interventions for this group and focuses on preliminary intervention fit from the youth and social worker perspective. Methods: We conducted two small-scale studies. Social workers (Study I, n = 2; Study II, n = 9), and youth (Study I, n = 9; Study II, n = 13) completed self-report s…
Differential Outcomes Training of Visuospatial Memory: A Gamified Approach Using a Socially Assistive Robot
This study represents the first stage of evaluating whether cognitive training interventions may be facilitated by the presence of a socially assistive robot (SAR) and gamification. Our experimental setup involves using a SAR providing feedback to a gamified visuospatial working memory task, administered according to a differential outcomes training (DOT) protocol. The study’s main objective was to investigate whether performance and attitude tow…
Social workers’ experiential accounts of complex intervention development for youth and families in practice settings
We aimed to explore social workers’ experiential accounts of developing complex interventions for youth and families within practice settings. Social workers’ experience of developing interventions has not been leveraged in scientific research even though many complex interventions in use are developed by social workers in practice settings. Lack of insight into the intervention development process impairs our ability to link approaches to outcom…
Good behavior game – study protocol for a randomized controlled trial of a preventive behavior management program in a Swedish school context
ClinicalTrials.gov, identifier NCT05794893
How Can Practitioners Assess the Value of Social Work Interventions
In social work, practitioners are often faced with situations in which they have to choose an intervention. A fundamental ethical principle of social work practice is to minimize the risk of adverse effects caused by social services. To adhere to this principle, practitioners must be aware of the possible positive and negative effects of potential services. There are hundreds of interventions currently in use in social work. Although there are a …
Developing an Intervention to Enhance Parental Monitoring in Family Foster Care
Purpose: To fulfill their supervision and counseling responsibilities to foster parents, social workers need an effective way to indirectly monitor foster children's mental health and learning ability within a model of tripartite parenthood. This article describes how we are developing an intervention aimed at enhancing parental monitoring as a protective factor in family foster care. Methods: Focusing on the initial parts of Fraser et al.'s step…
Interventions in child welfare: A Swedish inventory
In Swedish child welfare, there are no mandatory guidelines on what interventions to use. Local authorities are able to set their own criteria for implementing or designing interventions. We carried out a survey to identify interventions in use in Children's Social Services and Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Care in Sweden. A total of 102 interventions were stated to have been in use, with between 31 and 45 different interventions for each of t…
Treatment Foster Care Oregon for Delinquent Adolescents: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis
Interventions in Foster Family Care: A Systematic Review
Exploring fit for the cultural adaptation of a self-determination model for youth transitioning from out-of-home care: A comparison of a sample of Swedish youth with two samples of American youth in o…
Prior research has established evidence for self-determination enhancement as a promising intervention for youth transitioning from out-of-home care. Understanding how participants in these prior trials compare to adolescents in target contexts may inform practice by highlighting the extent to which such models are expected to benefit young people. To assess the extent to which self-determination enhancement is a promising strategy for the Swedis…
Is multidimensional treatment foster care (MTFC) more effective than treatment as usual in a three-year follow-up? Results from MTFC in a Swedish setting
This study examines three-year post-baseline outcomes for a randomized controlled trial of Swedish antisocial youths who received either multidimensional treatment foster care (MTFC) or treatment as usual (TAU). Several studies in our literature review indicated that MTFC intervention is preferred to the alternative (TAU) in the USA during follow-up. Two studies (one conducted in the UK and one in Sweden) have shown indications of a washout effec…
Social workers’ experiential accounts of complex intervention development for youth and families in practice settings
We aimed to explore social workers’ experiential accounts of developing complex interventions for youth and families within practice settings. Social workers’ experience of developing interventions has not been leveraged in scientific research even though many complex interventions in use are developed by social workers in practice settings. Lack of insight into the intervention development process impairs our ability to link approaches to outcom…
How Can Practitioners Assess the Value of Social Work Interventions
In social work, practitioners are often faced with situations in which they have to choose an intervention. A fundamental ethical principle of social work practice is to minimize the risk of adverse effects caused by social services. To adhere to this principle, practitioners must be aware of the possible positive and negative effects of potential services. There are hundreds of interventions currently in use in social work. Although there are a …
Developing an Intervention to Enhance Parental Monitoring in Family Foster Care
Purpose: To fulfill their supervision and counseling responsibilities to foster parents, social workers need an effective way to indirectly monitor foster children's mental health and learning ability within a model of tripartite parenthood. This article describes how we are developing an intervention aimed at enhancing parental monitoring as a protective factor in family foster care. Methods: Focusing on the initial parts of Fraser et al.'s step…
Interventions in child welfare: A Swedish inventory
In Swedish child welfare, there are no mandatory guidelines on what interventions to use. Local authorities are able to set their own criteria for implementing or designing interventions. We carried out a survey to identify interventions in use in Children's Social Services and Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Care in Sweden. A total of 102 interventions were stated to have been in use, with between 31 and 45 different interventions for each of t…
Exploring fit for the cultural adaptation of a self-determination model for youth transitioning from out-of-home care: A comparison of a sample of Swedish youth with two samples of American youth in o…
Prior research has established evidence for self-determination enhancement as a promising intervention for youth transitioning from out-of-home care. Understanding how participants in these prior trials compare to adolescents in target contexts may inform practice by highlighting the extent to which such models are expected to benefit young people. To assess the extent to which self-determination enhancement is a promising strategy for the Swedis…
Is multidimensional treatment foster care (MTFC) more effective than treatment as usual in a three-year follow-up? Results from MTFC in a Swedish setting
This study examines three-year post-baseline outcomes for a randomized controlled trial of Swedish antisocial youths who received either multidimensional treatment foster care (MTFC) or treatment as usual (TAU). Several studies in our literature review indicated that MTFC intervention is preferred to the alternative (TAU) in the USA during follow-up. Two studies (one conducted in the UK and one in Sweden) have shown indications of a washout effec…
Is multidimensional treatment foster care (MTFC) more effective than treatment as usual in a three-year follow-up? Results from MTFC in a Swedish setting
This study examines three-year post-baseline outcomes for a randomized controlled trial of Swedish antisocial youths who received either multidimensional treatment foster care (MTFC) or treatment as usual (TAU). Several studies in our literature review indicated that MTFC intervention is preferred to the alternative (TAU) in the USA during follow-up. Two studies (one conducted in the UK and one in Sweden) have shown indications of a washout effec…
Treatment Foster Care Oregon for Delinquent Adolescents: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis
Interventions in Foster Family Care: A Systematic Review
Exploring fit for the cultural adaptation of a self-determination model for youth transitioning from out-of-home care: A comparison of a sample of Swedish youth with two samples of American youth in o…
Prior research has established evidence for self-determination enhancement as a promising intervention for youth transitioning from out-of-home care. Understanding how participants in these prior trials compare to adolescents in target contexts may inform practice by highlighting the extent to which such models are expected to benefit young people. To assess the extent to which self-determination enhancement is a promising strategy for the Swedis…
Interventions in child welfare: A Swedish inventory
In Swedish child welfare, there are no mandatory guidelines on what interventions to use. Local authorities are able to set their own criteria for implementing or designing interventions. We carried out a survey to identify interventions in use in Children's Social Services and Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Care in Sweden. A total of 102 interventions were stated to have been in use, with between 31 and 45 different interventions for each of t…
Good behavior game – study protocol for a randomized controlled trial of a preventive behavior management program in a Swedish school context
ClinicalTrials.gov, identifier NCT05794893
How Can Practitioners Assess the Value of Social Work Interventions
In social work, practitioners are often faced with situations in which they have to choose an intervention. A fundamental ethical principle of social work practice is to minimize the risk of adverse effects caused by social services. To adhere to this principle, practitioners must be aware of the possible positive and negative effects of potential services. There are hundreds of interventions currently in use in social work. Although there are a …
Developing an Intervention to Enhance Parental Monitoring in Family Foster Care
Purpose: To fulfill their supervision and counseling responsibilities to foster parents, social workers need an effective way to indirectly monitor foster children's mental health and learning ability within a model of tripartite parenthood. This article describes how we are developing an intervention aimed at enhancing parental monitoring as a protective factor in family foster care. Methods: Focusing on the initial parts of Fraser et al.'s step…
Differential Outcomes Training of Visuospatial Memory: A Gamified Approach Using a Socially Assistive Robot
This study represents the first stage of evaluating whether cognitive training interventions may be facilitated by the presence of a socially assistive robot (SAR) and gamification. Our experimental setup involves using a SAR providing feedback to a gamified visuospatial working memory task, administered according to a differential outcomes training (DOT) protocol. The study’s main objective was to investigate whether performance and attitude tow…
Social workers’ experiential accounts of complex intervention development for youth and families in practice settings
We aimed to explore social workers’ experiential accounts of developing complex interventions for youth and families within practice settings. Social workers’ experience of developing interventions has not been leveraged in scientific research even though many complex interventions in use are developed by social workers in practice settings. Lack of insight into the intervention development process impairs our ability to link approaches to outcom…
Advancing Our Understanding of Complex Intervention Development in Social Work: Co-Producing Support for Youth Transitioning from Out-of-Home Care
Research on intervention development has expanded over the past decade. However, much of the extant literature on complex intervention development is confined to healthcare and public health broadly or intervention science specifically with scant attention to the process within other fields known for their extensive provision of social interventions such as social work or community-based services. This paper aims to advance understanding of the c…
Defending the Principle of the Best Interest of the Child as the Moral Standard for Restricting Social Contact Between Parents and Children in out-of-home Care
Whether or not to allow socialisation between parents and children in out-of-home care presents a difficult ethical challenge for those social work professionals who need to make an assessment about what to do. In this as well as in other contexts, it is widely assumed that the principle of the best interest of the child (BIC) is both the legal and moral standard for decision-making for children. Yet, from a moral philosophical perspective it is …
Two Studies Assessing Early Intervention Fit of Independent Living Services in Sweden
Purpose: Young people transitioning from out-of-home care are a vulnerable group. This article reports two studies aiming to increase understanding of how to develop interventions for this group and focuses on preliminary intervention fit from the youth and social worker perspective. Methods: We conducted two small-scale studies. Social workers (Study I, n = 2; Study II, n = 9), and youth (Study I, n = 9; Study II, n = 13) completed self-report s…
Interventions to strengthen foster family care: A systematic review of effects, evidence gaps, and future directions
My Choice–My Way! Results From a Swedish Quasi-Experimental Pilot Study
Purpose Experience of out-of-home care (OHC) is associated with long-term adverse outcomes, partly due to insufficient preparation for independent living. This study examined the preliminary effectiveness of My Choice–My Way! (MCMW), a transition support service. Methods A 2 × 2 mixed design with natural allocation compared MCMW ( n = 55) to service as usual (SAU; n = 77). Youth ( n = 132), aged 15 + and currently in or recently leaving OHC, were…
The Importance of Social Support for Well‐Being Among Late Adolescents With Experience of Out‐of‐Home Care in Sweden
Social support is important for human well‐being. Adolescents with experience of out‐of‐home care (OHC) have an increased risk of low well‐being and lack of strong social support networks. Well‐being in the general population is known to fluctuate during the life‐course, particularly during adolescence. The purpose of this study was to increase our understanding of how well‐being differs at different time‐points in youth with experience of OHC an…
Social Work (10 works) · Medicine (8 works) · Psychology (8 works) · Child Welfare and Adoption (7 works) · Intervention (counseling (7 works) · Psychiatry (7 works) · Political science (6 works) · Psychological intervention (5 works) · Applied Psychology (3 works) · Applied Psychology (3 works)